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(No Model.)

D. OSTBRWEIL.

TRUNK TRIMMING.

N0. 576,608. Patented Feb. 9,1897. l

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ATTORNEY UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIcE.

DAVID OSTERVEIL, OF NEVARK, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR OF TWO-THIRDS TO LEVI GOLDSMITH AND DAVID GOLDSMITH, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

TRUNK-TRIMIVIING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 576,608, dated February 9, 1897.

Application filed November 6, 1896. Serial No. 611,217. (No model.)

To all zul/1,0111, t may concern:

Beit known that I, DAVID OSTERWEIL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Newark, in the county of Hudson and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Trunk-Trimmings, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact specification.

My invention relates to an improvement in trunks and the like; and it consists principally in improving the construction of the trimming or binding clamps used in the construction of a trunk for the purpose of securely holding a binding-strip and strengtheningslat in position.

The object of my invention is to provide an inexpensive, effective, strong, and serviceable means for securely holding the binding-strip, which extends around the edges of the trunk, and the strengthening-slats, which are placed 4aroundthe sides and top, in position.

My invention is illustrated by the accompanying drawings, in which,-

Figure l is a perspective View of the corner and adjacent portion of a trunk and illustrating my invention. Fig. 2 is a section on the line x, Fig. l. Fig. 3 is a section on the same line, illustrating the modification. Fig. 4 is a detail view of a modification, and Fig. 5 is a section illustrating another modification.

Similar letters refer to similar parts.

A A illustrate the sides of a trunk, meeting at an angle and provided with a binding-strip B along the outer edge of said angle.

D is a strengthening-Slat.

E is a specially-formed clamp comprising two wings arranged at substantially right angles to each other and adapted to be held by rivets or other suitable fastenings F F. As the slat D is commonly made of wood and as the binding-strip B is commonly made of metal, it is necessary that, in order to get the desired strength, the thickness of the slat D shall be greater than the thickness of the binding B. In order to provide suitable means for holding the two parts B D properly in their relative positions, I utilize the clamp E, on which are formed lug projections G G, said project-ions being adapted to lap around the edge of the binding B, as shown, and engage the opposite edges of the strengtheningslat D.

In a preferable form of clamp E, I provide an internal shoulder H,adaptedto rest against the binding B, as shown in Figs. 2 and 5. By 55 this means the difference in the thickness of the binding-strip and the strengthening-Slat is compensated, s0 that when the clamp is in position it securely holds both the binding and the strengthening slat.

In the modifications shown in Figs. 3 and 4 I provide abinding-strip havinga thickened portion B', said thickened portion being adapted to lie next to the end of the strengthening-Slat D, so that without materially increasing the weight of the binding-strip B, I am enabled to accomplish the result before mentioned of having the clamp press against and hold both the binding-strip and the strengthening-rib. In this modification the clamp E does not necessarily have to be provided with the internal enlargement H, previously referred to.

Obviously a strengthening-Slat may be provided under each wing of the clamp, whereas only one slat is shown in the drawings.

It is apparent that in carrying out my invention some changes may be desirable, and I do not, therefore, limit myself to the speciiic construction shown and described, but hold myself free to make such alterations and changes as are fairly within the spirit and scope of my invention.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. In a trunk binding or trimming, a clamp comprising two wings arranged at substantially right angles to each other, and lug projections formed on the inner opposite edges thereof, at a sufficient distance from the angle formed in the said clamp for the said lugs to grasp the corner binding-strip, as well as the strengthening-Slat adjacent thereto, substantially as described.

2. In a trunk binding or trimming, a clamp comprising two wings, arranged at substantially right angles to each other, lugA projections formed on the opposite inner edges thereof, at a slight distance from the angle formed in said clamp, an internal shoulder on said clamp between said lugs and the said angle, substantially as described.

DAVID OSTERVVEIL.

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Witnesses:

R. C. MITCHELL, A. J. FALLON. 

